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Richard Adams, who died only 4 years ago, would have been 100 today. The deuteragonist of Watership Down, Fiver, has sixth sense and prophetic dreams that Sandleford Warren will be destroyed, but nobody believes him: Adams said he was based on the Greek figure of Cassandra.

@Emilinajames555 Richard Belt sued Charles Bennet Lawes for writing in the Times 22 June that Belt had falsely claimed to have created some sculptures. Belt won eventually. One of the contested statues was of Hypatia the Alexandrian philosopher-mathematician.

Before she became a Roman month-god, Maia was a Pleiad, single mum to Hermes in a Peloponnesian cave, & adoptive mum of the Arcadian hunter Arcas before he was turned into another constellation as Little Bear along with his biological mum Callisto as Big Bear. So now you know.

Sobering maxim from prolific ancient doctor Galen for anybody writing anything today:
"It is difficult for any writer, being human, not to err in many ways, in some being entirely ignorant, in some judging falsely, in some writing inattentively". Wish me luck!

Watching this with @RickyPo for a podcast about it later this week. Any particular questions people want answering?

#APeoplesHistoryofClassics 56. Thomas
Russell, soldier, United Irishman, Belfast librarian, classicist, Wolfe Tone's friend, used Homer & Virgil in dazzling satires in republican Northern Star. Executed at age of 32 for participation in the doomed 1803 Irish rebellion @henrystead

It's Ronald Searle's centenary. He didn't just give us Molesworth and St Trinian's, but wonderful illustrations of Greek myth and--of course--the legendary 'Private Life of the Gerund' for Latin students.

#APHC 51/90. Fabian Society got its names from Q. Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, aka ‘Delayer’ (Cunctator), after his strategy of attrition v. Hannibal, on suggestion of Frank Podmore (biographer of Robert Owen) who
had studied Classics at Oxford but become radicalised. @henrystead

#APeoplesHistoryofClassics 40/90. Stephen Smith, the autodidactic stonemason’s son in (autodidactic stonemason) Thomas Hardy’s A Pair of Blue Eyes (1873). He betrays his low class by his odd pronunciation of Latin, which he has learned from a correspondence course. @henrystead

For all delighted that the Monty Python Philosophers' Song was anticipated by Edward Ward's Wine & Wisdom: or, the Tipling Philosophers. A lyrick Poem. Third in an occasional series: Diogenes the Cynic, who gave up everything happily--except wine. So he sniffed his (wine) barrel